· Private foundation
Brookbank Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee | $100,000 |
| Florentine Opera Company | $34,500 |
| Palm Springs International Film Society | $30,000 |
| North Shore Library | $25,000 |
| North Shore Library | $25,000 |
| Wisconsin Aquatics Association Inc | $12,000 |
| Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center | $10,000 |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee | $10,000 |
| Milwaukee Art Museum | $10,000 |
| United Performing Arts Fund | $10,000 |
| Friend of Boerner Botanical Gardens Inc | $6,000 |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $5,000 |
| Childrens Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| Milwaukee Ballet | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,068 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +37%
FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $242k · revenue +44%- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +29%
- TLTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +24%
- HBHarvard Business Schoolone grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
To cultivate civil discourse, increase understanding, and create common ground by connecting wisconsin people and ideas.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Our mission is to be the premier source for the personal empowerment of municipal clerks in wisconsin through education, professional development, and the promotion of excellence.
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds WALTER SCHROEDER AQUATIC CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN AQUATICS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERSITI INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ACT THEATRE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · The Ros Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · National Center for Housing Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brookbank Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brookbank Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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